Stephen Daldry Quotes - Page 2

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• Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

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  Kids, Parent, Rings

  "Stephen Daldry Discusses New Movie". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.

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• There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

  Stephen Daldry

  Defining, Productions, Has Beens

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• They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

  Stephen Daldry

  Opportunity, Awards, Boredom

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• When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

  Stephen Daldry

  Mother, Gay, Earth

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Excess, Youth

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

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  Reflection, Years, Knowing

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• At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

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  School, Trying, Adults

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• I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

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  Morning, Catholic, Directors

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• I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

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  Country, War, Germany

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• The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.

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  Country, Father, Drama

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• I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

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  Morning, Wake Up, Telephones

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• I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

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  Bored, Needs, Three

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• As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

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  Bored, Know How, Knows

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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